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My Research Interests |
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Over the last few years my main interests have been in the areas of database theory, query optimisation, multidatabase systems, interoperability of legacy systems, formal methods, and healthcare information systems. A few years ago we designed and constructed an Interoperator Prototype for Multidatabase Systems using a CORBA implementation from Iona Technologies (Orbix). The prototype is known as Jupiter and allowed autonomous database sytems to cooperate. A new algebra and calculus were developed for multidatabase systems as part of this work which was partially funded under the EDITH initiative of ESPRIT III. I am interested in data mining and data warehousing
techniques, especially for bioinformatics applications. I am also interested
in the philosophy of computing and in particular research relating to
consciousness and the cognitive limits of species, in other words, the
limitations of what can be known. |